In Time to Come; a play about Woodrow Wilson

[some age-toning to covers, title page and rear endpaper, otherwise a solid clean copy]. This play, which opens with Wilson's speech to Congress announcing the U.S. entry into World War I in April 1917, primarily covers the immediate postwar period, including Wilson's attendance at the Paris peace talks and his failure to secure U.S. participation in the League of Nations. It had its Broadway premiere (in a production by Otto Preminger, during a period when he was temporarily on the outs in Hollywood) on December 28, 1941, and ran for just over a month (40 performances); Richard Gaines played Wilson, with Nedda Harrigan as his wife Edith. Curiously, in all contemporary advertising and review of the play, John Huston is credited as co-author with Koch -- although in this published version, authorial credit is given to Koch alone, who has added this prefatory note: "In both the research and in the writing of this play the author was aided by John Huston and John Houseman to whom he wishes to express his gratitude." (There must be a backstory to this, but unfortunately in his 1979 memoir Koch devotes not a single word to the genesis, writing, or staging of this play. Huston and Koch were friends and occasional collaborators, notably on SERGEANT YORK, released earlier in 1941; and Houseman had originally hired Koch to write for the Mercury Theatre in New York. The other thing I can't quite suss out is if there's any connection between this play and the 20th Century-Fox prestige biopic WILSON, produced just a couple of years later.)

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Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Year: (c.1942, 1940)

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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